Senior Database Consultant, AWS Professional Services

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud service provider in Greater London is looking for a Senior Database Migration Architect. The successful candidate will guide customers through complex migration projects, working closely with technical resources to recommend solutions. They will engage with C-level executives and analyze various database environments to optimize performance. Experience with migrating mission-critical databases and a collaborative approach in an agile setting are crucial. This position prioritizes work-life balance and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Work-life harmony

Mentorship and career growth opportunities

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• Experience in migrating mission-critical database environments.
• Hands-on experience with database replatforming from commercial to open-source engines.
• Experience with large data sets extraction and processing.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with C-level executives.
• Consult for optimal design of database environments.
• Employ customer-facing skills to represent AWS.

Skills

Experience in Oracle DB

Experience in SQL Server/MySQL

Experience in Agile methodologies

Technical support skills

Innovation initiatives

Job description

Description

As a Senior Database Migration Architect, you will work with customers and partners, guiding them through planning, preparing and delivery of complex transformation and migration projects based on varying customer needs. You will build and maintain strong stakeholder relationship with C-level executives to shape their cloud migration and transformation roadmap.

On a daily basis, you will work together with customers to assess their organizational readiness to perform the cloud adoption. You will guide them to define goals, objectives and business outcomes. Together with the stakeholders, you will create and align a cloud vision to achieve those results. You identify solutions that help a customer, partner, or an internal team overcome technical as well as organizational challenges. You will collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to support pre‑sales activities.

Do you have experience delivering IT solutions in agile environment - plan, organize, and manage all phases of a project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery?

Come build the future with us.

Eligibility for UK Government Security Clearance is required for this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade‑offs, standard methodologies, project management and risk mitigation.
• Work closely with AWS Platform Service Engineering and Architecture teams to help ensure the success of project consulting engagements with customers.
• Work directly with customers' technical resources to devise and recommend solutions based on the understood requirements.
• Think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Analyze on‑premises database environments such as Oracle, SQL Server, or other Commercial DB Engines to Open Source Engines like Aurora‑PostgreSQL/MySQL or RedShift, DynamoDB.
• Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance.
• Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee‑led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in Oracle DB, or experience in any Bigdata architecture and experience in SQL Server/MySQL
• Experience in technical support, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• Hands‑on experience with migrating mission critical database environments from one platform to another. Relevant Application/Database replatforming experience (Commercial to Open Source Engines)
• Experience in driving innovation initiatives and best practices across multiple development teams or customers and proven track record of implementing replication technologies such as Oracle GoldenGate, Amazon Database Migration Service, or similar

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience engaging and influencing C‑level executives, both business and technical
• Experience in Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Prior consulting experience working directly with customers and partners

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